Accounting-firm insurance should reflect the services performed, credentials, client types, contracts, deadlines, records handled, payment practices, employees, and potential financial consequences of an alleged error. Bookkeeping, tax preparation, payroll, audit, and advisory services can create different professional and cyber exposures.
Professional insurance planning for accounting services, client records, deadlines, employees, cyber risk, and office operations. Cox & Associates helps organize coverage around the way your operation actually works.
Use these focused guides to organize a submission, review cost drivers, prepare for renewal and claims, strengthen controls, and connect contracts to coverage.
Start with the operation, people, property, vehicles, services, and income that make this industry distinct.
Open this guide →Understand the business details that can influence appetite, pricing, deductibles, limits, and market selection.
Open this guide →Prepare a clear operating narrative, accurate schedules, current values, and useful loss information.
Open this guide →Update the insurance program for changes in operations, locations, people, property, vehicles, contracts, and revenue.
Open this guide →Focus attention on preventable incidents, high-severity scenarios, documentation, training, and accountability.
Open this guide →Define how the business will protect people, report a loss, preserve information, and continue critical operations.
Open this guide →Connect leases, customer agreements, vendor contracts, and certificate requests to the insurance program.
Open this guide →Look for exposures that fall between property, liability, auto, workers compensation, cyber, and specialty policies.
Open this guide →Organize the operational, financial, property, and loss information an underwriter needs to understand the account.
Open the playbook →Focus on practical controls that can reduce claim frequency, severity, and preventable disruption.
Open the playbook →Map the people, property, equipment, suppliers, and revenue dependencies needed to recover after a loss.
Open the playbook →Policy terms, limits, exclusions, eligibility, and availability vary. A focused review helps determine which protections fit the operation and which quote path makes sense.